Russia-Ukraine conflict
Ukraine: what have we learnt?
It is hard to isolate large adversaries
Welcome back to Weimar
In an atomised world, right and left are turning to extremes
Bore Bore
And then, if we’re lucky, War War
Let’s be real about Ukraine
Britain and its allies should be wholly realistic about what they are truly prepared to do
How to botch a war
A cluster-bumble of the greatest magnitude
Speak softly and carry a big stick
A prudent fear of the unpredictability of war has been the touchstone of realist thinkers
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
War returns to Kursk
Could the famous WW2 era battlefield be yet another military turning point?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true